When Arna Rennan applied for fellowships to study traditional Norwegian folk music in Norway, she had a plan. "I had usefulness in mind," the singer/painter said, as she sat in her comfortable kitchen ...

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Modesty, she tells me, is what makes her distinctly Norwegian. Naming her cat Lisa, not so much. (“Lisa is not but a common name actually, but it is in The Simpsons,” she says.) And then, of course, ...

Geitungen, a folk music trio from Norway, will perform at 7 p.m. Monday at the Gyda Varden Sons of Norway Lodge in Grand Forks, playing tunes from its home area Rogaland. Musicians Håvard Ims, Olav ...

This evocation of an aspect of country life is part of a radical reinterpretation of Edvard Grieg’s 19 Norske Folkeviser (19 Norwegian Folk Songs), composed in 1896. The first piece in the cycle is ...

If folk music is music of "the people," then certainly adding the designation of "jazz" is a redundancy. When a jazz trio such as that of bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, saxophonist Hakon Kornstad and ...

“Jeg elsker musikken din,” I tell Norwegian folk singer Juni Habel near the start of our virtual meeting, she in her country house an hour outside Oslo, and me in my country house outside New York ...